The simple answers are:
1. The HoR DIMocRATS are so out of touch with reality that they believed that they could get GOP members in considerable numbers to turn their backs on the POTUS.
(Had the GOP members have done that treachery, that would without question END their careers in the GOP. = WISHFUL THINKING for the DIMs!!)
and
2. The DIMocRATS REALLY are that INCOMPETENT & mostly STUPID, as well. AND they mostly believe their own FANTASIES.
(Schiff, sadly I must tell you, is one of the “medium SMART” of the DUMB-bunnies that are “the leaders” of the DP in 2019.)
Tours, TMN78247
I see, but don’t talk to, a few Leftists every week and I can tell that they are not happy these days.